Judge slams Jeremy Kyle show after uncle, 57, and niece, 25 admit INCEST after TV appearance
Katie Buscombe had tried claiming she wasn't related to her dad's brother, but a DNA test proved otherwise
A JUDGE has slammed The Jeremy Kyle Show after an uncle and niece admitted having sex after appearing on the programme.
Katie Buscombe, 25, appeared on the ITV show and admitted being in a relationship with her dad's brother Philip, 57.
She had claimed her dad was not her biological parent but a DNA test ordered by social services proved her wrong.
The former couple lived together in Cornwall and Katie was 20 when she began bedding Philip, who was aged 52.
They have avoided jail after pleading guilty to having a sexual relationship with an adult relative between August 2012 and August 2013.
Truro Crown Court heard how the pair continued to sleep together even though they had been warned it was against the law.
Sentencing, Judge Robert Linford slammed The Jeremy Kyle Show saying: "You were both involved in an unlawful sexual relationship. Both knew that it was wrong in my assessment but none the less you did it.
"Quite why it would be that the makers of a TV programme think there is money to be made from people such as you is entirely beyond me.
"You, Mr Buscombe, are described as socially isolated and with your own problems, and you, Katie Buscombe, have medical and mental problems which are not your fault, but each of you should have known that what you did was not right.”
The court heard how Katie's parents had split when she was young but she made contact with her dad Richard when she turned 18.
She moved in with him and Philip in Cornwall but her dad moved out because he was "not happy with the situation between the two of them".
Prosecutor Heather Hope said: "It would seems there was concern in the family at the behaviour of the two of them and at the sleeping arrangements. It was thought they were sleeping together.”
Social services became involved, but the pair denied they were sleeping together.
It was later that the police became involved when a DNA test revealed they were related.
Defending Philip, barrister Mary McCarthy said her client, who works as a tractor driver, was extremely sorry and ashamed.
She said he was a lonely and isolated man and added: “His best friend in his life was his mother. When she died, that’s when the drinking started.”
Barrister Jo Martin, defending Katie, said she now lived in Glasgow and suffers from multiple sclerosis.
They were each given community orders with supervision by the Probation Service for one year and Philip was ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work in the community.
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